BALLET fans are like baseball fans. We have our favorites and we watch them, clucking with hope like mother hens. Wednesday night’s program at New York City Ballet was not only enjoyable, but a fine way to see whose star is rising.

“Allegro Brillante” is Balanchine’s all-in-one vitamin pill for classical ballet; it opened the evening with debuts in the leads for principals Megan Fairchild and Andrew Veyette. Veyette is more mercurial than most tall men, and that suits the crisp attack of the piece.

The ballet needs a woman who can turn, and Fairchild is a top. She’s transitioning from whiz kid to mature dancer, and her approach is becoming more daring and expansive as well as more sophisticated musically.

Like many of his works, Peter Martins’ “Hallelujah Junction” is a speedy, intricate workout that gave Sterling Hyltin, Daniel Ulbricht and Gonzalo Garcia a chance to show their stuff. Garcia looked the best he has so far this season. There is also a small corps; Martins uses pieces like this to show us who he likes. Tiny Erica Pereira flew around the stage with abandon. Daniel Applebaum is dancing like he means it — and wants to break out of the corps.

Melissa Barak’s “Simple Symphony” returned from the winter season with a new leading woman, Abi Stafford. Like Fairchild, Stafford is also pushing herself and trying out a more womanly persona. She had great support from Jared Angle. The demi-soloists, also making their debuts, looked under-rehearsed.

Kathryn Morgan made a pert debut as Winter in Jerome Robbins’ “The Four Seasons” (to Verdi, not Vivaldi). Jenifer Ringer’s been doing Spring seemingly forever, but remains eternally dewy. Soloist Tyler Angle made his debut as her consort, and he’s bidding to join his brother Jared in the principal ranks. Rebecca Krohn and Amar Ramasar seduced each other in a very hot Summer.

The best came last. Is someone going to break it to Tiler Peck just how hard Fall is? Maybe it’s better she doesn’t know — she rotated in the piece’s multiple turns like a gyroscope. Will she do all the virtuoso roles before she’s made principal dancer or after?

NEW YORK CITY BALLET

David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center; 212-870-5570. Season runs through June 21.